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    Foster children who have found a happy home

    China Daily Europe | Updated: 2017-11-24 08:54
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    HOHHOT - At 7 am every day, 56-year-old Jing Fengying and her husband, Zhang Youbing, wake up their four foster children and spend an hour dressing and feeding them. They need to leave by 8 am for classes.

    The couple have devoted eight years to caring for abandoned children in their home at the Hohhot Children's Welfare Institute in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region. In 2009, the institute hired them to serve as foster parents for four children with disabilities.

    They live in a three-bedroom house at the institute and are responsible for the day-to-day care of the children until they are either legally adopted or reach their 18th birthday.

    Jing and Zhang receive about 1,800 yuan ($270; 230 euros; 203) per child from the institute each month. They have fostered 18 altogether.

    They are currently caring for Songsong, a 4-year-old boy who was born prematurely, and three children with disabilities. Their other 14 foster children have found permanent families or were transferred to other social welfare homes when they turned 18.

    Before joining the institute, Jing did odd jobs to make money.

    "At first I just wanted to have a stable job," she says. "But now I feel good giving these children the love of a family."

    In 2009, the welfare institute in Hohhot launched its "simulated family" program to help the children get proper parental care.

    There are eight couples living at the institute. Each cares for four disabled or abandoned children. All the couples are between 45 and 55 years old and have completed at least nine years of formal education.

    As well as day-to-day care, the couples attend training on raising a child with a disability. The institute focuses on the children's medical treatment, education and rehabilitation.

    The program aims to allow children to enjoy the warmth of a home and family as much as possible, and helps them learn to interact with family members, the institute's Zhang Yan says. "Children without proper parental care tend to become withdrawn or violent. That's why we tried this method."

    Another goal of the program is to help children adjust to a parent-child relationship and to normal family life after they are legally adopted.

    "With the care of these foster parents, some withdrawn and sensitive children feel the warmth of family life and learn to communicate with others," Zhang says.

    Songsong was lucky to be fostered at Jing's home. He was a sick, abandoned infant but has grown into a healthy boy, thanks to the care he has received.

    "Songsong is very healthy now. Many families will be willing to adopt him," Jing says. "I am happy he will have his own family, but also feel sad to know he'll leave us soon."

    Jing's biological son and daughter, who are both married and work in Hohhot, often come to see their parents and foster siblings, of whom Jing says: "The love we give them is sincere and true. After years together, we are a family."

    Xinhua

    (China Daily European Weekly 11/24/2017 page14)

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